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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: peripheral issues to the Mark Smith discussions
Message-ID: <4592@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 16:02:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.4592
Posted: Sun May 24 16:02:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 21:46:48 EDT
References: <151@ksr.UUCP>
Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
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Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
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Summary: post if you want, but not here....

In article <151@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP () writes:
->I received a slanderous (of Mark) piece of email in response to my
->posting.
->I considered posting it as an object lesson to all of the fact that
->there is more than one source of nastyness at work here.
...
->Clearly, people think differently. Is this a matter of custom, legal
->rumor, or "ettiquette"?

	I there WAS a reason to post it I personally think it reasonable. Any
mail coming to me without regards to copyright (that just means I can't copy
it) is available to me to post (not copy if paper).  As for a copyright on
an e-mail, I think the law is somewhat unclear, but my personal opinion would
be to post it WITH the copyright notice.  

	HOWEVER NOTICE I SAID "IF THERE *WAS* A REASON" and in this case please
let this stuff die (or at least in news.misc)

->PS: several people have ragged on mark for complaining of being cut
->off from soc.women inaccurately. I suggest that you ask yourselves
->what you would have done if (a) you knew that the sysop had received
->demands to cut you off, and (b) you didn't see soc.women for several
->days. Would you calmly assume a technical failure? 

	now this CAN be construed somehow as a news.misc article.  I agree
if a) and b) that one would be annoyed - but shouldn't one check with the 
system admin? check with someone else on this system??  To just immediately
assume the worst AND THEN to start net.screaming at everyone about violations
of civil rights (which couldn't have been violated even if it was true) and
lawsuits is pure and simple obnoxiousness.

-ed